NPO Report

Interested readers can find the CRA’s “Non-Profit Organization Risk Identification Project Report” here.

Time out

Joel Nitikman, in “Just the Fax Ma’am: A day late and a dollar short? A comment on Popovich” Tax Topics No 2074 (May 7, 2024), discusses in some detail Popovich v R, 2024 TCC 44, which analyzes the rules for…

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Residence of a trust

In Theodoros Darmos Family Trust v. Minister of Finance et al., 2023 ONSC 6431, the Court was called upon to determine whether two family trusts were resident in Alberta or Ontario. After conducting a detailed review of the relevant facts,…

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Easier access to My Account

Life is easier for a tax adviser if a client has access to his or her “My Account“, not least because the client can add the adviser as an authorized representative quickly and easily. (In fact, the CRA is making…

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Source of income

In Stackhouse v R, 2023 TCC 156, Owen J carefully considered comments in Brown v Canada, 2022 FCA 200, and found that they improperly intepreted the test used in Canada v Paletta, 2022 FCA 86, for determining whether a source…

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Accessing stranded ACB ok under GAAR

In 3295940 CANADA INC. v R, 2024 FCA 42, the taxpayer appealed the application of the GAAR to a series of transactions that used ACB in shares of a corporation that the purchaser refused to purchase. The transactions, in effect,…

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Time out

Joel Nitikman, in “Just the Fax Ma’am: A day late and a dollar short? A comment on Popovich” Tax Topics No 2074 (May 7, 2024), discusses in some detail Popovich v R, 2024 TCC 44, which analyzes the rules for…

Continue reading…

Residence of a trust

In Theodoros Darmos Family Trust v. Minister of Finance et al., 2023 ONSC 6431, the Court was called upon to determine whether two family trusts were resident in Alberta or Ontario. After conducting a detailed review of the relevant facts,…

Continue reading…

Easier access to My Account

Life is easier for a tax adviser if a client has access to his or her “My Account“, not least because the client can add the adviser as an authorized representative quickly and easily. (In fact, the CRA is making…

Continue reading…

Source of income

In Stackhouse v R, 2023 TCC 156, Owen J carefully considered comments in Brown v Canada, 2022 FCA 200, and found that they improperly intepreted the test used in Canada v Paletta, 2022 FCA 86, for determining whether a source…

Continue reading…

Accessing stranded ACB ok under GAAR

In 3295940 CANADA INC. v R, 2024 FCA 42, the taxpayer appealed the application of the GAAR to a series of transactions that used ACB in shares of a corporation that the purchaser refused to purchase. The transactions, in effect,…

Continue reading…

Time out

Joel Nitikman, in “Just the Fax Ma’am: A day late and a dollar short? A comment on Popovich” Tax Topics No 2074 (May 7, 2024), discusses in some detail Popovich v R, 2024 TCC 44, which analyzes the rules for…

Continue reading…

Residence of a trust

In Theodoros Darmos Family Trust v. Minister of Finance et al., 2023 ONSC 6431, the Court was called upon to determine whether two family trusts were resident in Alberta or Ontario. After conducting a detailed review of the relevant facts,…

Continue reading…

Easier access to My Account

Life is easier for a tax adviser if a client has access to his or her “My Account“, not least because the client can add the adviser as an authorized representative quickly and easily. (In fact, the CRA is making…

Continue reading…

Source of income

In Stackhouse v R, 2023 TCC 156, Owen J carefully considered comments in Brown v Canada, 2022 FCA 200, and found that they improperly intepreted the test used in Canada v Paletta, 2022 FCA 86, for determining whether a source…

Continue reading…

Accessing stranded ACB ok under GAAR

In 3295940 CANADA INC. v R, 2024 FCA 42, the taxpayer appealed the application of the GAAR to a series of transactions that used ACB in shares of a corporation that the purchaser refused to purchase. The transactions, in effect,…

Continue reading…